Triatoma africana, Neiva, 1911 a: 239

Rodrigues, Juliana Mourão Dos Santos, Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo, Deckert, Jürgen & Galvão, Cleber, 2020, List of the type specimens of Triatominae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae) in the Hemimetabola Collection of the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Zootaxa 4809 (2), pp. 329-348 : 330

africana Neiva, 1911a: 239 ; Triatoma

( Figs. 1–4 )

Current status: subjective junior synonym of Panstrongylus megistus ( Burmeister, 1835: 246) ; synonymized by Lent (1960: 164).

HOLOTYPE ( Figs. 1–3 ) male with labels ( Fig. 4 ): “Typus” [red, pr] // “Africa tropical / Emin Pascha” [blue, hw] // “ Triatoma africana . / A. Neiva ” [hw] // “ Panstrongylus megistus / (Burm., 1835) / Rótulo trocado? / 2-959 [hw] H. Lent det. [pr]”

Remarks. Lent (1960: 163) suggested a possible exchange of locality labels. According to the author, the genus Panstrongylus is typically Neotropical and, therefore, should not have been collected in tropical Africa. Lent also added this information to a label: “ Panstrongylus megistus / (Burm., 1835) / Rótulo trocado? / 2-959 H. Lent det.”.

Figures

FIGURES 1–4. Habitus. 1–4, Triatoma africana Neiva, 1911b [= Panstrongylus megistus (Burmeister, 1835)], holotype. 1, dorsal. 2, ventral. 3, lateral. 4, labels. Bars = 5 mm.